Change: 40,000 International Longshore and Warehouse Union members quit AFL-CIO over Obamacare...

In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of
the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that
they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the
nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied
Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their
disaffiliation.

In an August 29 letter
to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath
cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the dissolution of their
affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of
Obamare.

"We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor
movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath
wrote in the letter to Trumka.